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Brent Friedman / Bryce Zabel · 1:32:40
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:00:00
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 3:23:48
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedFriedman's credits include Dark Skies, Mortal Kombat, Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He joined Bryce Zabel on the channel in 2026 to discuss how Hollywood and intelligence agencies have shaped UFO storytelling, including the Men in Black motif. He speaks as a storyteller about the subject, not as a witness.
Who
| Role | Television writer-producer; co-creator of Dark Skies (1996) with Bryce Zabel |
|---|---|
| Side | civilian |
| Status | verified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true) |
Interviews and appearances
- 0:00:00 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg 20 June 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
- 0:00:00 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg 20 June 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
- 3:23:48 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman 17 October 2025 discussed ▶ YouTube
Claims made
Friedman and Zabel's episode reports that Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' presents gray aliens as its entity frame — with a trailer that said the truth 'should not be held from the 7 billion people on Earth', a number changed to 8 billion in the released film — while the film omits Nordics, reptilians and every other corpus entity type.
- 1:32:40 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman / Bryce Zabel ▶
isn't it interesting? It's in the trailer >> and then it's not
- 1:32:40 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman / Bryce Zabel ▶
Brent Friedman testified that on Orcas Island he encountered a tall, blonde, 'specimen'-like man in European clothes who greeted him by name from twenty feet away and 'spoke to me without opening his [mouth]' — and that locals describe a private compound where such 'tall white people' periodically stay.
- 2:21:07 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman ▶
there's this person who literally looks like a male model, like a Scandinavian male model with kind of longish blonde
- 2:21:07 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman ▶
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg 20 June 2026
- 0:00:00 ▶ interview
- 1:32:40 ▶ Brent Friedman / Bryce Zabel
isn't it interesting? It's in the trailer >> and then it's not
- 2:21:07 ▶ Brent Friedman
there's this person who literally looks like a male model, like a Scandinavian male model with kind of longish blonde
Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg 20 June 2026
“The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman 17 October 2025
Named in 1 upload (automatic name matching, 2 mentions)
Sources on this record
- 1:32:40 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman / Bryce Zabel ▶
isn't it interesting? It's in the trailer >> and then it's not
- 2:21:07 Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg · Brent Friedman ▶
there's this person who literally looks like a male model, like a Scandinavian male model with kind of longish blonde